JTS Improvements - Want More

Aclone

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Finishing the sidewalk early this morning. I expected that, they were working on the framing pretty late last night.

When I think about it, it’s hardly surprising they’d have a sidewalk from the center of CyTown to the Alimni Center, is it?

Also will let them finish sodding right off the bat next week.
 

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cycloner29

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Road my bike down there this morning. Lots of an activity with pouring concrete. Sidewalks and the road between Hilton and JTS. Moving dirt. Saw were they took some of the asphalt from the old lots and recycled it and put it on the gravel paths in the haunted forest.
 
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Road my bike down there this morning. Lots of an activity with pouring concrete. Sidewalks and the road between Hilton and JTS. Moving dirt. Saw were they took some of the asphalt from the old lots and recycled it and it on the gravel paths in the haunted forest.
How much rain has Ames gotten? Or is dry? The haunted Forest lots are fun people watching trying to get out of there when it rains hard.
 

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How much rain has Ames gotten? Or is dry? The haunted Forest lots are fun people watching trying to get out of there when it rains hard.
What’s fun are the guys with pull behind campers. They are the ones that tear it up. I think they may have solved that now. After adding rock to the driveway the last 4-5 years and now adding the crushed asphalt on top of that . I don’t know what the east end is like.

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My point was just pave the entire thing and don't plant the trees.
Still need a storm water plan.

And use of asphalt is basically to save money for "good enough." Concrete will last a lot longer but at least a few years ago asphalt was significantly cheaper, less labor intensive to install, and ready to go a LOT sooner. Of course the trade off is maintenance is significantly more expensive with crack fill, seal coating, etc. if you want said asphalt to last
 
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